It can be said that it is strange that most of them copied Wen Rensheng's practices and developed slowly.
Moreover, his family has money and can quickly recruit a separatist force.
He then used Wen Rensheng's military training methods, coupled with Cao Cao's own liking for the art of war and his recent military exploits, he quickly learned it.
Just three months later, a mountain armed force of 8,000 men was formed.
Relying on this armed force, Cao Cao began to use the authority of the governor to wipe out the bandits.
At this time, Liu Yan's proposal was also approved by Han Emperor Liu Hong, who changed the governor's position to Zhou Mu and ordered Zhou Mu to sweep away the bandits in the territory.
Because thieves are not just in the Yellow Turbans, but everywhere.
"At this time, Hanyang rebels, with more than 100,000 troops, attacked Chencang, and the three auxiliaries were shaken", which directly threatened the core rule.
However, Liu Hong is not stupid, and he did not change everything in one go.
But first came Yizhou, Youzhou, and Yuzhou.
Moreover, Cao Cao's governor was gone, and Liu Yan was still appointed as the governor of the state.
How can this be done?
Cao Cao asked his father to use money to buy a state shepherd.
However, this time the Han Emperor did not sell it.
Look, Liu Hong is not stupid. Of course he knows that Zhou Mu has too much power and is easy to divide, so he has to choose people he trusts.
Unfortunately, due to poor information, he did not know that Liu Yan had a rebellious intention, but Liu Yan died early.
In fact, Liu Hong died just as early.
Liu Hong was only in his thirties when he died. He probably thought that he could live to be in his 60s and still have 30 years to slowly stabilize the world.
But the fact is that he died early.
Being extravagant and lustful can easily corrupt the body.
In fact, even if he can live a long life, he cannot change the dynasty cycle.
After all, no matter how hard he tries, how can he change the situation of land annexation?
There must be a lot of killing before a new king emerges.
Just as Wen Rensheng said, he has been enjoying himself for too long and the emperor has the power, so he has lost his determination to forge ahead and his meticulous patience...
If Cao Cao doesn't want to sell it, he will break up with him.
Anyway, Hanzhong is from his family.
He sent a guy named Xia Houran to stir up trouble in the local area.
However, the Han army could not be quelled due to the difficult terrain and huge expenditure.
This shows that the Han Dynasty is indeed out of money. It is no wonder that Liu Hong wants to drink poison to quench his thirst and sell his official position to win titles.
Anyway, most of the officers who get promoted normally are not good enough, so it is better to harvest their money in advance.
This is probably Liu Hong’s clever idea.
So Cao Cao continued to serve as governor of the state in the name of governor.
Continue to learn what Wen Rensheng did, refine internal affairs, and develop the four majors in agriculture, industry, and commerce.
However, Cao Cao still promoted Confucianism, which helped maintain his rule.
However, Cui Chengcheng soon understood why Wen Rensheng said that everyone is equal.
Because of the rise of Confucianism, Confucian scholars began to belittle industrial and commercial people.
"Those who work and do business often form gangs, ignore etiquette, and often cause chaos. They should be suppressed."
"The miners gather together in a place called work, but in fact they are bandits."
"Businessmen are untouchables. They don't engage in production. They buy low and sell high, which disturbs people's hearts. They should be punished hard."
Cui Cheng learned from Wen Rensheng for a month, so he naturally knew the importance of businessmen.
It can be said that Wen Rensheng spent a lot of time telling everyone that only businessmen can truly solve the problem of chaos.
Why?
Because businessmen can communicate whether or not.
This is his characteristic.
What do the poor have?
There is a labor force.
What the rich have is food.
How to let the poor get the food of the rich through forced distribution?
Coercion will inevitably bring about resistance. Once there is resistance, this thing will not run smoothly and will eventually be inefficient.
so what should I do now?
Through the means of merchants, merchants manufacture and purchase various novelties in exchange for food in the hands of the rich, so that the poor can sell their labor power to the rich and then obtain food.
This is also called capital.
Of course, businessmen have no mercy, and neither does capital.
Once they find that there is too much labor and fierce competition, in order to reduce costs, they can make six-year-old children work in factories.
The reward children ask for is only one-twentieth of adults.
However, repetitive work is only one-third as effective.
So there must be restrictions.
However, it must be handled appropriately.
So Cui Cheng told his lord not to focus on agriculture and suppress business.
Only this time, Cao Cao didn't listen to him.
Soon the suppression of merchants began.
Because Cao Cao discovered that these merchants had a big problem.
what is the problem?
Because these businessmen naturally target Lu Buwei.
Having money is not enough, you also have to get involved with officials.
Surely he understands why?
Only businessmen know what kind of business is most profitable and profitable, and they are not afraid of losing money.
That is the investment emperor.
One is Lu Buwei, the other is Mi Zhu, and the other is Fan Li.
They are all typical examples of successful businessmen.
If these people grow stronger, they will definitely threaten the rule of Cao Cao's family.
Cao Cao needed merchants and needed to suppress them.
Let them act obediently as suppliers of military supplies rather than as decision-makers on state affairs.
And there's another big problem.
Businessmen are more difficult to manage than farmers.
Cui Cheng continued to use the Confucian method of selecting officials, with superiority and inferiority, strict hierarchy, and the shortcomings soon became apparent.
Merchants had difficulty operating in Shu and were often exploited and bullied by officials.
They also collude with larger officials.
Invest in various officials everywhere and let them make profits for themselves.
In short, in Cao Cao's view, businessmen have a good side and a bad side.
The biggest problem is that they are too difficult to control and manage.
Cao Cao decided to restrain them anyway.
So as to reduce more and more management costs.
When Cui Cheng saw this, he immediately felt something was wrong, so he admonished:
"Businessmen seek huge profits and often deceive people, which is indeed hateful. However, they can adjust to the shortcomings of the four seasons and become more motivated. People from Taihang Mountain have said that businessmen are the most dynamic group in the world, the most active and proactive group.
They are also the most destructive and evil groups. Only by making good use of them can we truly solve the causes of chaos."
"Oh, I don't think they can solve any problem except selling high and buying low." Cao Cao said a little arrogantly.
Cao Cao had this problem. He became arrogant when he achieved great achievements.
In fact, all the rulers of the Three Kingdoms had this problem. Liu Bei, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan were all the same.
The only ones who were cautious from beginning to end were Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang.
They didn't suffer much because of their arrogance.
Cao Cao now owns a large state at a young age, and Shu is very wealthy because there has been no great chaos.
Can he not be proud?
And he didn't know that this was much better than his start in history.
Cao Cao in history started his career in Yanzhou, which was the place where the Four Wars were fought. It can be said that Cao Cao relied on his own ability, inclusiveness, and meritocracy to turn a grass belly into a golden edge.
But the advantage is that it is located in the Central Plains, with convenient transportation and easy recruitment of talents.
However, the current Shu region is easy to manage, easy to defend, and has abundant wealth, but it is easy for people not to make progress.
Now Cao Cao is beginning to think about the inheritance of the foundation a hundred years from now.
So I instinctively want to suppress businessmen.
This is what any unified monarch wants to do.
Cui Cheng understood this very well, so he said: "In addition to that, they can find ways to buy out the rich people's excess food, and then bring all kinds of novel and necessary things to the rich, such as organizing manpower
Go to the mountains to collect ice, so that countless poor people can have food to eat. These poor people will not rebel."
"And rich people can also enjoy the coolness of autumn on hot days, getting the best of both worlds."
"If there are no businessmen to coordinate the operation, the rich people's food will just rot in the granaries, while the poor people will have no jobs, and they will become thieves and bandits, causing chaos, and then drag the imperial court into collapse."
After Cui Cheng finished speaking, Cao Cao suddenly understood and hurriedly said: "Fortunately, Mr. Cao Cao was able to rein in the situation and make up for it."
"My lord is good at accepting advice, which King Xuan of ancient Qi could not match." Cui Cheng was very happy.
Then Cao Cao ordered that businessmen should be treated equally and could be officials.
However, it is necessary to abide by the laws and regulations and not abuse workers.
Of course, Cao Cao set the rules for others. He built his own tomb and abused the laborers.
In short, fucking adults is a natural double standard.
In the early days, it was said that more than one hundred people would be born, and the thought of it would break people's hearts.
The problem is that not many years after this poem was written, he went on a massacre of Xuzhou and massacred the city.
You say you want to take revenge, but that's all you need to do to take revenge on the nine culprits. Why are you taking revenge on those innocent people in Xuzhou?
And after all, Xuzhou still has a factor, and it will be the same massacre in other places.
The Three Kingdoms already had few people, but you still slaughtered them. Cao Cao has an unshirkable responsibility for Wuhu's destruction of China.
In the north where he unified the Han people, the power of the Han people declined too much, and the population declined too much, so that the Hu people could rebel and suppress the Han people.
It has to be said that it is related to Cao Cao's strategy of massacring the city.
Then came the matter of the Four Books and Five Classics.
Cui Cheng also wanted to open a school to train craftsmen and miscellaneous students. These are the ways to become strong.
Just teaching the Four Books and Five Classics can make people behave in peacetime.
Even the barbarians knew that in the massacre, the blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers and other craftsmen would be left behind.
But when the city was massacred in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, even these craftsmen could not survive.
why is that?
The Confucian scholars suppressed it day by day, making Tao far superior to art, divorced from the fundamentals and reality, and reduced to metaphysics and famous teachings, rather than true knowledge that can truly change the world.
As a result, those people thought that craftsmen were nothing, so they could just kill them.
Cui Cheng certainly couldn't think like that at this time. If he wanted to defeat the Taihang Mountain people, he had to support the craftsmen.
In this way, sharper weapons and stronger armor can be made.
However, if craftsmen are not given corresponding status, the things they make will be shoddy or hastily made.
Cao Cao was indeed cruel and directly ordered the identity of the manufacturer to be inscribed on the weapons. Anyone who made inferior weapons or armor would be beheaded if he showed up three times.
It's just that this kind of beheading without any reason is obviously intolerable to the craftsmen.
Because we are not in the future, there are no standard measurement tools. Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are not right. This is normal.
And the most important thing is that the craftsmen have lost their enthusiasm.
In order to pursue stable quality, everyone makes the simplest, most commonly used and most adept weapons.
As for innovation?
Invention, transformation?
what is that?
Looking for death.
Those who work know that innovation means bugs and a lot of trouble.
These craftsmen don't want to have too much trouble. Once something happens, they will die.
Someone commented: "This is not as good as before. This Governor Cao is three feet taller than the sky."
"Huh, what he wants is fame and money."
"We craftsmen's life is too hard. I heard that there is Taihang in the north. It is a paradise. It is better to escape."
"Go together, go together."
Under Cao Cao's rule, the people lived in poverty; it was far worse than under Liu Bei's rule.
However, Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei.
It can be seen that public support is relative. It should be said that public support can reduce obstacles in collection and reduce costs.
If this point can be made up for in other ways, there is nothing to worry about if there is no popular support.
The premise is that you must have strong enough force as your base to convince many people to take the initiative to be neutral.
Cao Cao had force, but the craftsmen could not resist.
I don’t want to be killed because of inferior products.
This has resulted in more and more craftsmen fleeing.
And many people actually traveled thousands of miles to the Taihang Mountains and trekked to escape to the Taihang Mountains.
These words were spoken by businessmen.
They say that the Taihang Mountains are the real place for doing business. Everyone is equal, business is harmonious, no one is angry, everyone has work to do, and everyone has food to eat. It is really a paradise.
There are no gangsters nearby, they have all been wiped out.
It's simply unbelievable.
After Cao Cao heard the secret message, he silently thought:
It seems that my future opponent will be that Taihang Mountain man.
What to do with him?
You cannot let the other party develop as they wish.
Although the other party is located in a mountainous area, it is naturally not good at developing the economy.
When it comes to the economy, Shu has more potential.
There are grain, grass, supplies, and soldiers, which is much better than the barren Taihang Mountains.
In the end, Cao Cao chose the method of blocking, and then the escapees were killed.
For a while, the craftsmen didn't dare to run anymore.
Cui Chengze and Cao Cao discussed how to deal with the Taihang Mountain man.
"My lord, you can promote the essence of his doctrine, which is rebellion, expose him to the world, and then gather the power of the world to attack." Cui Cheng said fiercely.
A few days ago, he received a letter from home saying that people from the Taihang Mountains had come out of the mountains.
And build unique military forts on the plains.
The things Wen Rensheng did and the words he said were enough to make everyone from aristocratic families in the world become his enemy.
But Cui Cheng didn't expect that Lin Tiancheng was not in a hurry to expand at this time.
Because he knew that the pace of expansion was too big, which would ultimately be detrimental to the development of this culture.
A unified empire lacks the full nourishment of this economy and culture. The more developed it is, the faster it will decline.
Wen Rensheng wants to turn the entire Taihang Mountain into a very core place.
Always prepare fortifications.
The offensive level of soldiers in this era is simply not enough to defeat them.
Now there is no air force, and without airdrop troops, we simply cannot defeat the Taihang Mountains.
Acting too slowly.
There are various issues to consider. Marching in the mountains is like a death march.
Cui Cheng then launched a debate among scholars from the north and the south.
"They are so rebellious that they dare to oppose what Saint Kong said. This is simply rebellious."
Kong Rong said: "The king, the king, the minister, the father, the son, the son, is this orthodox? Can this make society stable?"
"Although I am a descendant of Saint Kong, this Taihang Mountain man was right. Father and son must be equal, and fathers cannot rely on their father's fists to conquer their children."
"Parents have no kindness towards their children. They are all fake and just trying to make ends meet. The so-called etiquette and education are so ridiculous that they are ridiculous in the world."
